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Here on our little island called England, I have been set a challenge, to build a decent gaming rig for approximately £500. It should be able to play wth decent graphics and FPS such titles as Halo2, Half Life 2, Doom3 etc.

My thoughts start with a AMD 3100Sempron (E revision), DFI Nforce 3 250 motherboard, 1024MB of DDR memory, 6600GT AGP 128MB, with a 80GB 7200rpm hard drive. I should be able to overclock the processor enough to give farely decent performance, along with the graphics card. Anyone have a similar setup that can confirm my thoughts?

(Must go as its late, and I'm getting nagged to leave my laptop alone, and pay more attention to wifey!)

sounds good to me man. I think you could get a better mobo though.

that DFI is a good mobo, and there are not many options when it comes to 754 + agp.

DFI arguably makes the finest boards on the market right now. not only do you get a top notch board, but a really sweet package as well....carrying straps, rounded cables, etc....actually will save you some money on the flip side

That does look like a decent budget setup. For some ideas on how a highly overclocked Palermo (90nm "rev. E" Sempron) holds up under the competition, check out this review
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 00e_7.html

EDIT: And that DFI NF3 s754 mobo is very possibly the best OC'ing s754 motherboard available

The DFI NF3 250 is an amazing board, I have it and it works flawlessly.

Only problem is my cpu fan header seems to have dropped to 5 v today? :O